[cobalt-users] Speaking of SPAM - Spam Questions!

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I've been watching the Spam related discussions with interest for a while 
now and I want to do my part :)

I use SolarSpeed's current Spam-Filter/AV-Suite and between the Spam-Filter 
(SpamAssassin/Razor/DCC & RBLS combination) and the AV Tool (mailscanner) 
we are correctly tagging about 92 to 98% of spam on our server.
(Very nice product - Thanks Michael!)

My question is - what to do with the missed ones. I want to report them to 
the appropriate databases but I am not sure on the procedure.

Razor includes a tool called Razor-Report
( http://razor.sourceforge.net/docs/doc.php?type=pod&name=razor-report )

Which I invoked as follows:

        cd /home/spam-filter/bin
        razor-report -f /home/sites/path-to/spam.mbx

It churned away for a few seconds and then completed but gave absolutely no 
confirmation that it did anything.

The manual mentions needing to be authenticated but it's not clear how to 
do that. I'm feeling a bit on the dumb side today :(


Next question: where else should I be submitting this data?


One More Question: How Can I unlearn the Bayes system when it has 
incorrectly decided a message is ham but really it is spam?

Example:

"X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00 
autolearn=ham         version=2.61
X-UIDL: g45!!ce,"!bWl"!@6j!!
We are offering a fresh B2B email database which..."


- Bill B.



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William J.A. Brillinger
Precision Design Co.

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